“Liepaja” team on Sunday “Optibet”In the football super-league game, the leaders of the championship“ Riga ”will be deprived of points, which would allow the people of Kurzeme to rise to the fourth position.
“Riga” at the “Skonto” stadium will receive guests from Kurzeme at 6 pm, the game will be broadcast live on the 7th channel of Latvian Television.
The Latvian champion has celebrated victories in the last three games of the Super League championship, but before the UEFA European League qualifying tournament match against the San Marino team “Tre Fiori”, the superiority of the fiercest competitor RFS had to be acknowledged with 0: 2. In the last three games, the Rigans have managed to win “Ventspils” (2: 0), “Valmiera” (1: 0) and Jūrmala “Spartak” (2: 1).
The “Liepāja” team has been even better lately, because in the last eight Super League games they have won five victories and played three times in a draw. The series of five victories started with 5: 0 against “Tukums” / TSS, but later the teams of “Daugavpils” and “Metta” were left at zero (4: 0 and 3: 0), respectively. “Spartaks” scored the most goals for the people of Liepaja, who failed in the middle of September with 2: 3.
If “Liepāja” wins, they will be able to overtake Ventspils by one point in the tournament table, but in the third place “Valmiera” would be four points away.
In the first round, “Riga” was superior at home with 2: 0, but in the answer duel the guests won with 4: 1.
Mikhail Konev continues to lead the Riga team, as head coach Oleg Kononov is still in Russia, where he went in mid-September for family reasons.
Meanwhile, two Super League games will be played at 3 p.m. At the Tukums City Stadium, the hosts will host “Daugavpils”. The game will be broadcast live on blue screens by the Sportacentrs.com TV channel.
It was difficult for both teams in the middle of the season. The people of Tukums have still not won the first victory in the Premier League and have so far earned five points for a draw, but the Latgale team has climbed the loss trail after a promising start. Daugavpils residents have remained “dry” in the last two Super League games – 0: 4 against “Liepāja” and 0: 2 against “Jelgava”.
The balance of Tukums team is even more devastating, because ten goals have been lost in the last four Super League duels, but the opponents’ goalkeepers have not been beaten. The most painful loss – 0: 5 – was suffered against “Liepāja” at the end of August.
Both teams have met twice this season. At the end of June, “Daugavpils” won with the guests 6: 0, but in the answer game at home it was a draw 1: 1.
Maxim Tonyishev from Daugavpils and Alexander Ogunji from Tukums will not be visible in this duel in the square.
The victory for Tukums club on Sunday would be a historic success, but Daugavpils residents have an opportunity to overtake the position above “Jelgava”.
In the second game at 3 pm in the stadium “Daugava” “Metta” will meet “Jelgava”. This game will also be available to watch live on Sportacentrs.com TV.
Lately, he has shown a more promising performance to the Jelgava team, which after the loss to Liepāja (1: 3) and Spartak (2: 3), later won Daugavpils with 2: 0, but the duel was previously a draw with Tukums.
“Metta” won the last point in the middle of September, when they played a 1: 1 draw with “Spartak”, but the taste of victory was felt only in the middle of August. At that time we managed to beat Tukums / TSS (2: 0). Between the games against Tukums and “Spartak” there was also a series of four losses, but in the last duel with 0: 3 the superiority of Liepaja was recognized.
In the first mutual game of this season, “Metta” won at home with 1: 0, but later in Jelgava both teams played 2: 2.
“Metta” puts the highest hopes in the attack on Raimonds Krolls, the most productive Latvian in the Premier League, who has nine “goals” at his expense. The footballer, who recently made his debut in the Latvian national team, is the sixth best “bombarder” in the league.
The last three games of the 21st round will be followed by a two-week team break, but the Premier League championship will return to the fans on October 17, when all ten teams will go on the field.
It has already been reported that on Saturday RFS won “Spartaku” at home with 2: 1 (1: 1), but “Valmiera” played a draw 1: 1 (0: 0) against “Ventspils”.
After 20 rounds of games, the first place in the tournament table with 54 points is taken by “Riga”, which is three points ahead of RFS, which has one more game at its expense. 36 points in 21 games are for “Valmiera”, 31 points – for “Ventspils”, 29 – for “Liepāja” and 28 – for “Spartak”. “Jelgava” is further with 18 points, but “Daugavpils” and “Metta” have accumulated 16 points each, while Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS has reached five points.
This season, ten teams will start in the Super League, which is one more than last year and two more than yesterday. Also, this season in the Super League, the legionnaire limit has been raised to eight players. This means that there must be at least three players prepared for the association on the court at the same time. Last year, the limit was five foreign players.
As in many other countries, the number of permitted substitutions has been increased from three to five after the coronavirus break in the regulations of the Premier League championship in the 2020 season.
Due to the three-month forced break, three will be played instead of the four planned laps this season.
Last year, “Riga” was crowned Latvian champion, but RFS won its first trophy in the history of the club, which won the national cup.
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